Will ‘Akka’ K Kavitha be the next ‘Amma’ in southern politics? It has been exactly a month since Kavitha was expelled from her party BRS, founded by her father and former chief minister KCR. However, she is not sitting pretty. At the sprawling Telangana Jagruti office in Hyderabad, the social work outfit started by Kavitha around the same time as the Telangana agitation began, the leader is mobbed by supporters—mostly women—who call her Akka (sister).

In her office, small water bottles carry her pictures. What’s missing, though, is the picture of her brother and the heir apparent of the BRS, KTR.

With a sense of hurt, Kavitha says KTR “didn’t defend me when a Congress MLA attacked me and used filthy language. He could have just called me and asked me for my version".

Kavitha today stand

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